July 2017
Features
21 – Movers and shakers. Marianka Swain meets leading practitioners in the field of movement direction
25 – Staying afloat. Gerald Dowler finds out how dance is funded
33 – The memoirs of Nadia Nerina. Nadia Nerina dances Giselle with the Kirov Ballet
37 – Feel the purple. Laura Dodge visits SLP College in Leeds
Dance Today
82 – Tips on technique. By James Whitehead
83 – Technique clinic. By Phil Meacham
84 – Simon’s Guide to Swing. By Simon Selmon
85 – Stepping Out. By Marianka Swain
86 – Notes from the dance floor. Vikki Jane Vile reviews Karen and Kevin Dance
88 – Somewhere in time. By Jack Reavely
Regulars
6 – News. Dance Umbrella 2017
12 – Letters
15 – Talking Point. By Stephanie Jordan
40 – Variety Lights. Barbara Newman sees On the Town and Working
42 – FRANCE/dance. By Laura Cappelle
44 – Letter from St Petersburg. Igor Stupnikov meets Andrian Fadeyev, director of the Yakobson Ballet Theatre
47 – Notes from New York. Jack Anderson sees Alexei Ratmansky’s Whipped Cream
49 – Media. New books and DVDs
51 – Dance Scene. Reviews include Ballet Theatre UK, Scottish Ballet, Richard Alston Dance Company, Hong Kong Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet
91 – People. English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer, Queen’s Birthday Honours
92 – Dancer of the Month. Margaret Willis meets Scottish Ballet’s Victor Zarallo
96 – Obituaries. David Dean, Lois Strike, Sergei Vikharev
99 – Products
103 – Education. School of Ballet Theatre UK, Dance Forward, National Youth Ballet
106 – Health. Debbie Malina discovers how reflexology can be beneficial to dancers
109 – Classified
110 – Calendar. Our guide to what’s on stage in the UK and abroad, including future programmes for a number of US-based companies and venues
118 – Listings. Where to learn to dance in the UK
122 – Last Dance. We look back to July 1977